Lady Elizabeth Basset
{{Short description|English author and courtier (1908–2000)}}
{{other people||Elizabeth Bassett (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Lady
| honorific_suffix = DCVO
| name = Elizabeth Basset
| image =
| birth_date = 5 March 1908
| birth_place = Knightsbridge, LondonEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915.
| death_date = 30 November 2000 (age 92)
| death_place = London, England, UK
| title = Woman of the Bedchamber (1959-81)
| spouse = {{marriage|Ronald Lambart Basset|1931}}
| children = Bryan Ronald, Peter Francis
}}
Lady Elizabeth Basset, DCVO (née Legge; 5 March 1908 – 30 November 2000), was an English author and courtier.
Biography
Basset was born at 8 Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge,1911 England Census for Elizabeth Legge. the second daughter of the 7th Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Ruperta Wynn-Carrington, daughter of the Marquess of Lincolnshire.{{cite book |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood |title-link=Burke's Peerage |publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-9711966-2-9 |editor=Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |page=1039 |oclc=52621466 |ref=Burke}} She was educated at home.{{Cite news |date=5 December 2000 |title=Lady Elizabeth Basset obituary |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1376970/Lady-Elizabeth-Basset.html |access-date=4 July 2017}}
On 31 October 1931, she married Ronald Lambert Basset (1898–1972), senior representative of the ancient Basset family of Tehidy in Cornwall. They had two children, industrialist Bryan Ronald Basset {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (1932–2010) and Peter Francis Basset (1935–1954). During the Second World War, she ran a small farm in North Devon.
In 1959, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, asked Basset to be a Woman of the Bedchamber.{{Cite web |date=April 2006 |title=Newsletter |url=http://www.bassettbranches.org/newsletters/2006/20060416/20060416.shtml |access-date=4 July 2017 |website=Bassett Family Association |language=en}} She held that position until 1981. She was active as a Lady-in-Waiting from 1982 to 1993. She retired at the age of 85.
She was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1976 and a dame of the same order in 1989.
Lady Elizabeth authored a devotional book, Love Is My Meaning, and four anthologies.
Lady Elizabeth Basset died in London in 2000, aged 92.[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20001204/ai_n14356956 Obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421022004/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20001204/ai_n14356956 |date=21 April 2006}}, The Independent via findarticles.com; accessed 16 October 2014.
Bibliography
- {{Cite book |last=Basset |first=Elizabeth |url=https://archive.org/details/loveismymeaninga0000unse |title=Love is My Meaning: An Anthology of Assurance |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=1973 |isbn=9780232517033 |edition=2nd |location=London |oclc=13793386 |url-access=registration}}
- {{Cite book |last=Basset |first=Elizabeth |title=Each in His Prison: An Anthology |publisher=S.P.C.K. |year=1978 |isbn=9780281036004 |location=London |oclc=5355238 |author-mask=8}}
- {{Cite book |last=Basset |first=Elizabeth |url=https://archive.org/details/bridgeisloveanth0000unse |title=The Bridge is Love: An Anthology of Hope |publisher=Darton, Longman, and Todd |year=1981 |isbn=9780232515411 |location=London |oclc=9306333 |author-mask=8 |url-access=registration}}
- {{Cite book |last=Basset |first=Elizabeth |title=Interpreted by Love: An Anthology of Praise |publisher=Darton, Longman & Todd |year=1994 |isbn=9780232520729 |location=London |oclc=31609899 |author-mask=8}}
- {{Cite book |last=Basset |first=Elizabeth |url=https://archive.org/details/beyondbluemounta0000unse_w2s7 |title=Beyond the Blue Mountains: Wisdom and Compassion on Living and Dying; An Anthology |publisher=Medio Media |year=1999 |isbn=9780966694130 |location=London |oclc=41157529 |author-mask=8 |url-access=registration}}
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